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Easy · networking · Quant Developer interview question · byte-order, endianness, htons, htonl, networking, bit-manipulation, sockaddr
Network protocols require data in a standard "network byte order" (big-endian), which may differ from a CPU's native "host byte order". In high-frequency trading, systems often bypass standard libraries to communicate directly with hardware like FPGAs or custom NICs, necessitating manual byte-order conversion for maximum performance and control. This problem involves implementing these fundamental byte-swapping operations for 16-bit and 32-bit integers using bitwise logic. Task Implement four f